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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[165] Illa vera. [Newton showed his orrery to Halley the atheist, who was charmed with the contrivance, and asked the name of the maker. “Nobody,” was the ad hominem retort.]
[166] Staret.
[167] Spatia.
Chap. VI.—that neither the whole universe nor the elements are god, nor are they possessed of life.
[168] Is subservient to.
[169] Lactantius speaks after the manner of Cicero, and uses the word proposition to express that which logicians call the major proposition, as containing the major term: the word assumption expresses that which is called the minor proposition, as containing the minor term.
[170] Thus Cicero, De Finibus, iii., says: “But they think that the universe is governed by the power of the gods, and that it is, as it were, a city and state common to men and gods, and that every one of us is a part of that universe.”
[171] If the world was created out of nothing, as Christians are taught to believe, it was not born; for birth (γένεσις) takes place when matter assumes another substantial form.—Betuleius.
[172] The stars.
[173] Membra, “limbs,” “parts.”
[174] Sola, “alone.” Another reading is solius, “of the only God.”
[175] Brutescunt.
[176] Imaginum.
[177] Ut oculis hauriant.
[178] Nihil aliud est.
[179] Cicero, De Nat. Deor., iii. 2.
[180] Insinuata.
[181] [See Clement, vol. ii. cap. 10, p. 197, this series.]
[182] Ad verba.
[183] Twenty-second chapter.
[184] Relationship by marriage. The allusion is to the well-known story, that all the neighbouring towns refused to intermarry with the Romans.
[185] Pro virili portione. The phrase properly denotes the share that falls to a person in the division of an inheritance, hence equality.
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